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BOOT 0R SHOE PROTEGTOR. I A No. 328,844. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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SPEGIE'ICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,84, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed January 20, 1885. Serial No. 153,426. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS GRIBBLE and Romance ABRAHAM, both of Calumet, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot and Shoe Protectors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention more particularly relates to miners boots; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side View of a boot having our invention applied; Figs. 2 and 3, views in perspective as seen from beneath, upon a larger scale, of our improved upper and sole protector and shank-protector detached.

A is the upper and sole protector, which should be made of malleable or flexible metal as,for instance, of the best malleable cast-iron. The same is cast in the form of a hollow cover or case to the sole and adjacent side and toe.

parts of the upper of the boot B, and of proper dimensions, according to the size of the boot. It consists of a sole-plate, a, having studs 8 on its upper surface representing nail-heads of any suitable pattern to give the boot grip or hold on the ground, and, furthermore, having upright flanges b to take in the side and toe parts of the upper of the boot. These flanges stand straight up, or nearly so, in the plain casting; but when the protector is applied to the upper and sole of the boot they are bent or beaten up close to the upper to facilitate which they may be scallop shape on their upper edges-that is, made with downward openings or cuts 0 in them at suitable distances apart. Such upper and sole protector may be of any desired weight,

and be secured to the boot by screws d, ar-

ranged to pass from the outside of the plate a into the sole.

0 is the metallic shankprotector, which also consists of a studded plate, u,with side flanges, b, and which may be likewise secured to its place on the boot by screws (1. The front edge, e, of the plate a, of this protector is of a waved or recessed shape, and the back edge, f, of the plate a of the upper and sole protector A is shaped to loosely fit therein. The front ends of the flanges band rear ends of the flanges b are made to overlap one another, at which point they are united by a rivet, g, on each side. This gives an articulated connection of the upper and sole and shank pro tectors, which will give a certain flexibility to the tread and ease the use of the boot to the wearer.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The malleable metal upper and sole protector A, consisting of a bottom plate having studs on its bottom surface and formed with side and toe flanges, b, interrupted at inter- 7o vals by the cuts 0, whereby, when applied to a boot or shoe, the said flanges may be bent inward to inclose the sole edge and the lower portion of the upper, substantially as set forth.

2. In a miners boot, the combination, with the metallic studded upper and sole protector A, having upwardly-projecting flanges b, of the metallic shank-protector 0, having upwardlyprojecting side flanges in pivoted or articulated connection at their forward ends with the rear ends of the flanges b, as shown at g, substantially as specified.

THOMAS GRIBBLE. ROBERT ABRAHAM.

Witnesses:

JAMns D. GRIBBLE. J OIIN B. CURTIS. 

